Word: heir
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...that had been awaited for 26 years. When he took the throne in 1941, the Shah rejected a formal coronation until he had a male heir, and until Iran was no longer the desperately poor and backward country that he had inherited. His conditions have now been met. His third wife, Empress Farah, gave birth to Crown Prince Reza seven years ago. The Shah himself launched an ambitious development program that has brought industry and prosperity to his nation, and his land reform has turned 15 million peasants into independent farmers whose soil is now their...
...HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, is an often critical, usually dispassionate but at times frankly sympathetic assessment of Bobby and his attempt to bring about a Kennedy Restoration...
...mayor generally follows a liberal Democratic line, has organized labor on his side, and asserts that he, not the "fake liberal" Specter, is the "rightful heir of Clark and Dilworth." Clark, now Pennsylvania's senior Senator, has campaigned with Tate, and this week Vice President Hubert Humphrey is scheduled to appear on Tate's behalf...
Married. Jill St. John, 27, perennial starlet (The Oscar); and Jack Jones, 29, television and nightclub crooner; she for the third time (her last: Woolworth Heir Lance Reventlow), he for the second; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Died. Pu Yi, 61, last Emperor of China and from 1932 to 1945 Japan's puppet ruler of Manchuria; of cancer; in Peking. Heir to the 300-year-old Ch'ing dynasty, the "Son of Heaven" was enthroned as Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden...